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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-06-23

BELLEVUE, La.
.u,,esDAY, ::::::::::::::::::jUNE %, 1887.
a,on croaking and 60 to work.
p..rer meeting tomorrow night.
whitewash your fences, clean up
..o, Yards and cut down the weeds.
u,s O. NJ. Griffin, of Haughton,
-. a few days this week visiting
friends 10 Bellevue.
Mr.. james d. Hanks, aged about
:, ,aars. died at his residence near
Rocky Mount last week.
Novelties are daily arriving,
and now open, at Sc Texas street,
shreveport. Call on Mr.. julius A.
Jacobs, agent.
Messrs. Henry Dreyfuss s. Son,
shreveport, have an elegant stock
of goods on hand, and are ready to
Welcome their customers.
No mans life is all climax. Let
M not despond if our spirit is at
low ebb: the tide of life willroll up
"a before, aud even reach a higher
point.
The plank fence which encloses
Bellevue cemetery is falling down
and needs repairing, and other work
might be very probably applied to
the grounds right now.
The Police Jury of this parish will
meet in regular session at Bellevue
90 the second Monday, the 18th day
At July, when there will be a review
NJ the assessment of 1887.
A great many persons are taking
advantage of the low prices; offered
b. Mr.. Julius A. Jacobs, agent, at
Shreveport, as his popular store is
crowded with superior goods.
Mrs.. N. q. Blanchard, of Shreve.
port wife Of our able and popular
Congressman, arrived in Bellevue
lest Friday. She is the guest of her
cousin, Mrs. J. A. w. Lowry.
We are indebted to our clever
friend, Capt. Thomas Lyles, for an
invitation to attend a free barbecue
to be given at Midway on July g.
II possible, We will be there.
One Of the most powerful arga-
ments for right living, for physical
uprightess, is that which develops
interior strength aud resources
which enable man to stand a strain
which wonld otherwise prove fatal.
Here is some good advice for
the young, the middle aged and the
old: When you want anything in
the dry goods line, clothing or gen
tlemen's furnishing goods, 60 to
Aessrs. Henry Dreyfuss s. Sons,
Shreveport.
Education does not merely fit mer
iar their station; it shows them what
station they are fitted for. 1t desig
Mates men by developing them
Education of q man is like cultiva
tio1 Of the soil; it shows what pos
abilities there are in him.
The receipts of cotton at th,
warehouses of Shreveport from the
mat Of last September up to las
Friday, are 100000 bales, agains
1875 bales during same time las
aesson; an increase of 24,624 bales
iae receipts for the week ending
iast Friday were 205 bales.
Inere will be q meeting of citizenl
q this parish at Midway, Saturday
Jay 2, 1887, for the purpose of OF
sanising Parish Agricultural Sc
osey incorporate with the tho Stat
&Rf3CElfnral Coo;atv Thc o:&s~or
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-06-23

N0Hb 1JhaNIA b1SbI<lE1 4 uufISII6Tt
So, IS and 81 Park Place, New York.
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KILLED BY HER FATHER.
An Innocent Life Sacrificed to the Cruel
Demon Drink

An Innocent Life Sacrificed to the Cruel
Demon Drink.
1 recently heard an incident that
may prove lesson to somebody. A
well-to-do citizen of city not thou
sand miles from this city, who is a
hard drinking man, had sw ct little
daughter to whom, when sober, he was
devotedly attached, but when drank
he was inclined to be ugly. In the lat
te. condition he was frequently in the
habit of calling her to him for kiss.
If she hesitated, the maudlin beast
would rap her on the head with his
cane, knuckles, or whatever came
handy. The result was that after
awhile his mere approach served to
throw the little one into commissions in
anticipation of the blows she expected
to receive. All this appeared to please
him while he played upon her fears. and
the shyer she grew the severer grew the
punishment that followed the forced
caress. Finally she was taken i'll, and
the physician who was summoned pro-
nounced it case of brain fever. On ex-
amining her head he found it full of
knots and bruises. 1t was necessary
to make further diagnosis, and the
father was informed that the child
must die. The intelligence sobered
him, and he insisted on being at her
bedside continually. Just before the
child breathed her last she looked at
him YEARLY, while the little head
tossed from side to side in pain, and
said: "Papa, amt afraid of 90,
now; 90 may tiss me now as much as
90 please, and 90 may knock my poor
head, too, if 90 wants, papa, for amt
going to hubble 90 any morer' and
with that she turned her baby face to
the wall, and slept the sleep that
knows no waking. The father, recog-
nizing at last what he had done, ut
tered cry, and fell to the floor. The
physician who described the scene,
says he has in the father another pa
tiet who will never recover, for his
mind is gone, and he wanders around
the house, moaning and weeping for
his murdered child. This is related by
st. Joseph minister as a true story.
m T. Witness.
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pie in Italy, drunkenness is on the in-
crease. Saloons without food, but
with drinking bars and strong liquors,
are being introduced. Instead of the
use of wines proving barrier against
stronger drinks, under the new pres
sure it opens the door to them. Excess
slve drinkers are increasing, and are
transmitting depraved appetites to
their children. The most thoughtful
and conscientious people view with
alarm the late increase of intemper-
ance. While no evangelical church in
Italy disciplines its members for mod
crate drinking, some of the most con-.
secrated Christians are adopting total
abstinence, and the clearest headed
say that the liquor problem will yet
perplex Italy as well as England and
America. " Bashford, in N. Y
Voice
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-16

| III UH tuc ULCdu,
filled their tin cups from thu clear
brook that Browser's sagacity had dis
covered, and, Standish not excepted,
ate as sweet meal as he had ever en-
loyed. Then, regardless of all pre-
cautions, each wrapped himself in his
blanket and was soon fast asleep. We
worked on for three days. much of the
time over country which would have
been hard enough had it been cleared
OF underground; but, thanks to Brow
ser, we seldom suffered from thirst.
We all learned to understand his mute
notice that, in this direction or that,
a cool, bright stream was flowing.
We were all, at last, reduced to join
ing with him in his repasts on the
abundant heritage.
Early on the fourth morning we
caught the sound of waves breaking on
the coast. In another hour we came
out on the sandy beach. Our boots
and clothing were torn, our faces and
hands scratched and bleeding, and
every muscle quivered with fatigue
and hunger Which way should we
turn to find the ranch, the food we SO
| sorely needed? Standish looked at his
compass; but in the struggle through
the jungle and in going for water we
had veered from our course. Man,
superior, reasoning man, was at a loss;
not so the unreasoning brute. Brow
ser lifted his nose, snuffed the air and
deliberately, steadily walked off, in
what the compass showed to be the
southerly direction.
Foot sore, we slowly limped after
him, over the broad black sand beach,
almost ready to throw down our light
ened loads, lightened because we had
laid upon much enduring Browser all
but rifles and bags of gold. Speech
lessly we were laboring on, when
sudden exclamation from Harry made
us look ahead.
Whats thatP" he cried. "The col
or as I'm living manr'
A rod before us the black sand
changed to yellow; yellow that glis-
tened in the sun light. We rushed for
ward, almost forgetting our WEAKNESS
and hungering faintness. We had all
seen natural gold, scores of times be-
fore, but we could hardly believe this
was gold, spread out like an immense
sheet at our feet. Whether we be-
lieved it or not it was so. The action
of the water had pulverized the mag
netic iron rocks into beach sand. In
the rock, gold and platinum had been
mixed. The sand that is washed out
to sea deposits the heavy metal An
unusually high wind and surf had
plowed up these deposits, separated
them and driven them in on shore, in
time to meet the astonished gaze of our
starving party.
Were ever men so placed before?
There was gold! Gold enough to buy
palaces, broad acres, luxuries in food
and clothing, pleasures, beyond all
our widest dreams had ever ap-
preached! We stood upon it trampled it,
handled it, tasted it, smelled it! Yes, it
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-16
HEAT AND ROCK.


Tho Powerful and Unlimited Metamor-
phic Influence of Water.
That heat exercises metamorphos-
ing influence on the structures it comes
in contact with is q matter of familiar
knowledge to every one. The pris-
matte texture assumed by the lining
of furnaces after long continued heat
has long been noticed, while the exam
ination of brick or q teacup shows
how clays are consolidated or fused
when they are ''baked." The 'vitri-
fication" of sand into a CLASSY mate
rial is another peculiar case in point.
Where trap OF granite dykes have oh
truded themselves the rock on either
side is altered in structure, being as a
rule rendered more crystalline than
the unaltered mass. The high tenn
perature, however, may be applied,
not by contact, as in the case mem
toned, but by transmission in various
ways, such as through the
heat of volcano, or by hot springs,
steam or other vapor permeating
for long period the strata. Even
cold water exercises a certain meta
morphic influence on the rocks through
which it percolates. 1t is found in
more or less minute quantities in all
rocks, even the quartz of granite
being full OF tiny water vesicles. of
which only the furnace can deprive it.
Some GRANTEES, indeed, contain in
their ordinary state a pint and a half
in every cubic foot. Chalk is also
highly absorbent, some forms of it
being able to take up half of their bulk
without appearing to be moist. Ordin-
airy sandstones hold nearly gallon in
cube foot, and according to Ansted,
in the best building stones be-
longing to the sandstone group from
four to five pints OF water are con-
tanned in each cubic foot of the stone.
The quantity of water capable of be-
ing held by common loose sea-sand
amounts to at least two gallons in a
cubic foot, while into the layers of
sand between the harder rocks so
much water is always soaking that
The driest seasons do not exhaust these
reservoirs. By dissolving out certain
chemi cal constituents in the rock
water must, therefore, exercise some
alteration on the beds through which
it percolates, or in which it stands.
This power is. of course, greatly in
tensified by heat, and this heat, we
know. is added to it in constantly in
creasing amounts as the water
descends towards the interior of the
earth. Even at so low tie mperature
as from SO to 172 degrees the mineral
waters of Plombieres, in the Vosges,
have in one week produced zeolites---
minerals consisting of silicates of lime
and magnesia-on the Roman brick
pavement over which they flow, while
other experiments by Dtubree were
even more strikingly in proof as to
the remarkable influence which water
of high temperature will exercise on
substances seemingly the least easily
affected. If to heat pressure be add
ed, the result viii be still more
marked Now. when, besides all
these factors, the one of almost unlim-
tied length of time has been allowed.
the metamorphic influence of water
must be very great. From "Our
Earth and Ito Story"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-16
TEMPERANCE.
THE TEAR OF A GELD.

My home-yes. it's bright and clean. sir,
And 1 II tell how it came to pass:
1t wasn't my work or doing at all
It's all due to that little lass.
was going straight down to hell SIR,
And all through the curse Of the drink;
How treated poor Mary, my wife, Sir,
God knows can't bear to think.
didn't know as loved her
Till the wild dark night she died,
when fonnd her lying so cold and still
And that newborn child by her side.
The little lass, she has grown, sir
Last June she was eight years old;
And what she has been 70 me, sir,
Can never On earth b. told.
When a kid, here was no one to mind her
But a woman as lived next door;
And she. being given to drink. too,
Let her fall one day on the floor.
And ever since the poor creatur
Has been lame with crooked knee;
So Te often lift her up IN my arms
To take her about with me.
For I really loved the poor mite, sir,
And her sweet little eyes of blue
Was as blue and as bright as her mothers wor,
One night was OF TO the public
I'd been drinking alrcady-two late,
And took little May to carry her,
But couldn't walk quite straight.
"Oh, daddy, Coat gor' she whispered,
But quickened my drunken pace,
Aud l said mot another word young un,
Or III give you slap in the face
Twas brutal. sir-I know it;
But the devil was in me then,
And when he gets hold OF US with the drink
We are only bruteS-not men.
And the little lass, she wor quiet
But felt a hot tear fall;
And it seemed to burn right into my hand.
Though she wiped it off with her shawl
Straight into my soul it entered
1t melted my hardened heart;
So L said: TIL go home, lassie"
That night 1 made new start.
Now, every morning and evening
L kneel, and with heart sincere
| bless my God for saving soul
BY the touch of little ones tear
The QuiUer.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-16
WHY SHE REFUSED,
WISCONSIN

He met her at the party gay
a neighbor gave across the way,
And deemed her such charming elf
He loved her better than himself
So, like brave young cavilier,
He thought all obstacles to clear.
lie spent his cash for livery team,
For candy. nuts and dear ice-cream;
When cash is scarce he runs up bills
For whatsoe'r the dear one wills.
There's nothing like 70 loves young dream
The present docs so pleasant seem,
Through all the world it is the same;
And so, one night, the question came:
Say darling, will yor be my vile?
III guard you frcln the storms Of life;
Pray, answe. me, do entreatl
See, dear, I'm I5ueeling at your feet.n
: On, please get up at last she said.
IndF cd, ne'er intend to wed.
ever thought that you meant all
You said, when oft you came to call,
hope you may be happy yet;
30, pray forget we ever metp
: First, give reason them he said,
= Why you have vowed to never we'd
an, would yea Know and be my friend,
I'll tell the story to the end.
had sister without foes;
Her pockets were with candy filed;
SIZE fce-cream had when e'er she pfilled--
With sleigh, AMI car, and buggy rides,
To sandwich in between, besidcs
Until, one fatal day, for life
She pledged to be petted wife.
Ihen came the talked-of joys of home;
lie said, he cared no more to roam.
NO ice'eream since then has she tasted;
ana as for her, the snow was wasted;
she ne'er single sleigh-ride GOT
know married woman's lot.
Although She says her husbands kind,
He falls below my standard, mind;
And so, to me, it best doth seem,
10 single stay, and eat ice-cream."
And then, so dreamily she smiled,
AS If by happy thoughts begulled,
While as behind him closed the door,
He vowed to ne'er trust woman more.
Mrs. 7, III. 1dcKinnon, IN Chicago Journal.
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L
was gold! All we had to do was to
stoop and take it! There was no one
to struggle with us for it! No one to
snatch it from us, after we had grasped
it! 1t was gold! Wealth, the idol be-
fore which the world falls PROSTATE in
abject worship! For which m an often
sacrifices all, that reason tells him, is
most dear, and having gained it, while
he clutches it, confesses that happiness
has melted away before it!
How it Knocked us! gaunt, travel
soiled, ragged crew! Lying all around
us, in silent command. it called upon
us to take the reward for which we had
left home, friends, the comforts of
civilization! How it Knocked us! Our
tottering limbs would not support rs;
our trembling hands would not obey
our greedy wills and gather the riches
spread before us!
The excitement of this sudden APP
pearance had reused us, only to react
in greater exhaustion and we were
driven to the acknowledgment that
food must come first, gold afterwards.
We gathered few handfuls, and
ploded on, planning how to come back
and secure the treasure before others
should find it This we were conf
dent we could do, as that part of the
beach was seldom visited by boats, on
account of the difficulty of approach,
and there was little to attract travel
! ers on the landward side. 1t was
near night when the cabin of the ranch
came in sight. The owner, well fed
man, stood in the doorway and took a
leisurely survey.
81 low you air snug lot, he said;
''your critter, reckon, come in, n ]
lowed there be some caved in strangers
follerin'"
The ranchman's bluntness was for
gotten when he led US into the one
room of the cabin and babe us ..sit
down and fall to. Our supper OF
smoking beef-steak, eggs, hot biscuit
/ and coffee DISPATCHED. we wrapped
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-16
Winter Care of Calves.

Perhaps no part of farm stock re-
quires more constant and faithful care
than calves. Often they are allowed
to remain in the pasture late and come
to winter quarters in poor condition.
They are not properly sheltered from
storm and cold. The change from
grass to hay and often coarse fodder
and from warmth to cold is trying
one, and unless extra care is taken and
suitable and seasonable food is given,
they will grow poor. At the first APP
proach of winter, they should be put
into warm stable and fed with the
best fine hay. To prevent waste, and
to secure a proper ration to each, they
should be confined in stanchions while
eating. Farm and Home.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-16
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.
The chicken-yard is said to be a
splendid locality for peach or plum


The chicken-yard is said to be a
splendid locality for peach or plum
trees.
Carefully ''hand-pick' the garden
seeds you saved last season, saving
only the perfect ones
The health of farmers would be
greatly promoted by doubling the con-
sumption of good fruit on the farm.
There is q deal of humanity in
providing thin muslin cover for the
work horse in hot weather. Farm,
Stock and Home.
Pudding Sauce-Beat together four
teaspoonfuls of sugar and two ounces
OF butter; stir in teacup of boiling
water; flavor to taste.-In Indianapolis
Sentinel.
Delicate Pie.-Whites two eggs,
four tablespoons cream, one large
spoonful -four, one cup white sugar,
one cup cold water; flavor with lemon.
Line q pie plate with pastry, pour in
the mixture and bake at once. Ed
change.
In the rush for good things many
of the old-fashioned flowers have been
sadly neglected, but it is pleasing to
note that reaction is taking place
and the marigolds peoples, four
o'clocks, sweet williams, etc., are again
coming into favor.
A cement very much used at the
present day in China and Japan is
made of rice, 1t is only necessary to
mix rice flour intimately with water,
and gently simmer the mixture over a
fire, when it readily forms delicate
and durable cement. Good House
keeping.
"A New Jersey melon-grower, whose
land is not adapted to that crop, makes
holes two feet across and eighteen
inches deep, which are filled with sand,
loan and spadeful of chicken com-
post, made by mixing one part of ma
nure to two parts of sawdust or dry
loan. Very fine muskmelons are
raised in this way.-IndianapoIis Jour-
nal.
An economical substitute for but
ter can be made by melting piece of
nice fat pork and straining it through
fine sieve or cloth into jars. When
cool. use it instead of butter. Another
good substitute is beef suet, either
tried out with lard or mixed with
equal parts of lard when done. Some
persons use the suet alone. N Y o.
serUer.
Snow Balls. Two cups sugar, one
and half cups butter, one cup sweet
milk, three cups -four, three teaspoon
fuls baking powder, whites of five
eggs. Bake in deep square pans. The
following day cut in two-inch squares.
Cut off the crust and leave it white.
Take each piece upon fork and frost
it upon all sides and then roll it in
grated cocoanut-EGchanqe.
Grease of any kind will destroy
lice upon cattle, but the use of grease
to a great extent will injure the cattle.
If single animal be infested with lice
all the others will soon be in the same
condition. A pound of carbonate or
lime mixed with bushel of fine, dry
dirt freely scattered on the backs of
the animals is harmless remedy, and
will prove successful if used daily.
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close underground OF magnificent
ferns, standing five or six feet higher
than tall mans head; of vines. long
berry bushes and wild fruits; in short,
dense tangle of vegetation. Once in
this jungle, we could make our way
only with knives and hatchets. We
cut eur road, step by step, eacn Lead
ing by turns, Browser bringing up the
rear.
Night came upon US. We were not
equal to tie labor of clearing place
Tor fire. So | brought from Brow
ser's pack some OF the bread had
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-16

some way to get some OF it. and who
knows but may be lucky enough to
see it washed up again.
As Harry and I were determined to
take the next steamer for the isthmus,
we turned over our interest in the
company to Standish. The beaches
have since been worked with fair sue
cess. But I believe no such sight has
ever. again appeared to any party of
miners as that glittering beach whose
golden sands our destitution forbade
out gathering; those treasures not
even hidden in the sands" but which
our wants compelled US to leave to be
borne out into the ocean waste.
SUSAN ID. NICKERsON.